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WASHINGTON — Greg Regan and Shari Semelsberger, President and Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department (TTD), issued the following statement commending the 199 Members of Congress who expressed their support for the Job Corps program in a letter to the Department of Labor (DOL): “We commend the bipartisan coalition of 199 House Members who…

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WASHINGTON– Greg Regan and Shari Semelsberger, President and Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department (TTD), issued the following statement after the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York granted a Temporary Restraining Order preventing the Department of Labor (DOL) from closing Job Corps centers: “Today’s court decision protects the thousands of…

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WASHINGTON — Greg Regan and Shari Semelsberger, President and Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department (TTD), issued the following statement in response to the Department of Labor’s (DOL) announcement that operations of the Job Corps program will be paused by June 30, 2025: “As America’s largest transportation labor federation, we strongly urge the Trump…

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WASHINGTON – The Operative Plasterers’ & Cement Masons’ International Association (OPCMIA) became the 38th affiliated union of the Transportation Trades Department (TTD) of the AFL-CIO. As America’s largest transportation labor federation, TTD represents millions of workers across the country in aviation, rail, maritime, transit, manufacturing, construction, school transportation, public safety, and other industries. Organized in…

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WASHINGTON – Today, a broad coalition of aviation stakeholders released the statement below supporting Secretary Duffy’s Air Traffic Control modernization plan: “We strongly support Secretary Duffy’s plan to rebuild our nation’s air traffic control system. Recent issues—especially those at DCA and EWR—remind us of the urgent need for a sharp focus on the safety and…

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WASHINGTON — Greg Regan and Shari Semelsberger, President and Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department (TTD), issued the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling, pausing a lower court’s order for the Trump Administration to rehire 16,000 probationary federal workers: “As America’s largest transportation labor federation representing thousands of federal workers, we…

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WASHINGTON — Greg Regan and Shari Semelsberger, President and Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department (TTD), issued the following statement in response to the Trump Administration’s Executive Order ending collective bargaining rights for approximately 700,000 federal workers: “As America’s largest transportation labor federation representing thousands of federal workers, we condemn this blatant attack on…

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